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Hyundai. There's joy in every journey. LeBron James talked about the pain of this loss and of course other elements of the game but what you will hear on Tuesday morning and beyond is his assessment of replay and what's not happening with the replay center. D-Lo clearly gets hit in the face on a drive. What the f*** do we have a replay center? This is going to go... that doesn't... it doesn't make sense to me. It makes no sense to me.

It bothers me. Sorry to ask you a question but that s*** is like... And then I just saw what happened with the Sixers-Nick game too. What are we... what are we doing? He ends up getting up walking out of the of the media center even though he'd already answered a bunch of questions. That's the part you're going to hear over and over. A couple of curse words. His comments on the officiating and mostly about the replay center that you actually have replay and still doesn't believe that they got it right. So we're welcoming Trevor Lane now from LA who's got the Lakers nation show and a lot of conversation about this Trevor.

So we'll start here. What's your reaction to what LeBron had to say postgame? LeBron is absolutely right and this is not the first time. This is something we've been talking about all season. This is not a Lakers specific thing.

This is not... it's not even about this game tonight. We've seen plays go to replay all season long. Obvious calls and still with the benefit of replay seeing it rewound over and over from different angles and still have the officials come back with what is obviously an incorrect decision.

That can't happen. There's no reason to stop a game if you're not going to get the call right when you've got the benefit of instant replay. So it's something that needs to be addressed. Some of it I think comes down to the rules of replay and what you can look at and what you can't. It creates situations where you can see something happen specifically. You see a player that steps out of bounds or something but that's not the part of the play that you happen to be reviewing. So you have to ignore part of what you're seeing in the replay and only focus on another part of it. It creates situations where the fans at home are watching. They're seeing a clear mistake being made and it's not being addressed. It's something that has to get fixed this summer and if it's not going to get fixed then just get rid of the replay system in my opinion because there's no reason to stop the game unless you're going to get the correct decision. I agree with that.

I'm still go back and forth. Not sure I love reviewing calls like that where it can be objective. Certainly a battle that other leagues have tackled. So that aside we hear from Lebron after. It's not why they coughed up a 20-point lead. So Trevor what changed in the second half for the Lakers?

Yeah so there were a lot of things that took place in this one. One of them was you saw the Nuggets make a shift with Aaron Gordon covering Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis was having his way with Nikola Jokic attacking him and getting some scoring opportunities. The Nuggets made an adjustment and then the Lakers really struggled to adapt to that.

We saw Anthony Davis talked about after the game that we only scored 40 points in the second half total. That was a big part of the reason why the Nuggets came back. The Lakers offense just ground to a halt and when you're taking bad shots, missing shots that fuels your opponent's offense because that gets them running in transition.

Gets them cross matches and things like that. So that was a big part of the Lakers kind of collapsing and then blowing this lead. They also really went away from their play calling which has been a major talking point across Lakers nation. They keep doing this in games where they're calling plays and things are going well and they're running stuff and they start to freelance and they'll go through long stretches. They went through four or five minutes tonight where they didn't score and a lot of that was not calling any plays.

Just freelancing and trying to wing it and it does not work and it often leads to situations like this. So all of that kind of combined to create this perfect storm that ended up being a disaster of a night from a Lakers perspective. Anthony Davis says this afterwards and I know you retweeted it on your account. We have stretches where we don't know what we're doing on both ends of the floor. I mean that's that's pretty damning. Is that what you're talking about?

They don't have any organization. It's kind of mass chaos. Yes yeah 100% and that's where you know who is that ultimately following her but that falls under coaching. The coach needs to have his hands on the wheel in that moment and not allow the team to just kind of go out there and freelance and not run some of the offensive sets that they've installed which have been really successful for them over the course of the season. It is possible when you listen to the full statement that Anthony Davis made or the full answer and he could be putting that on his teammates but it's not a good look for a coach with a player saying we go through stretches where we don't know what we're doing on either end of the floor. Teams especially in the postseason should know what what they're doing and so Darvin Ham is catching a lot of criticism and justifiably with that with that comment going out there so it'll be interesting to see if AD walks it back at all if he just says no I mean we're just we kind of lose our minds for a few moments we get caught up in the situation or or something to that effect or if he just lets the comment sit as stands because it certainly sounds like to me a thinly veiled shot at Darvin Ham. Trevor Lane is with us from LA he's got Lakers nation in the front office show and we always enjoy having him here with us after hours with Amy Lawrence so they obviously had success in building that 20-point lead and we see not just LeBron but AD and then D'Angelo Russell who's played exceptionally well for the past what six plus weeks he's been a great third option I know he didn't shoot well in the opener but when you when you see that shift by the Denver Nuggets and they play a different defense against Anthony Davis it still blows me away because the Lakers do have other options and I don't it's almost like there was this domino effect where I don't know if they weren't expecting it but just couldn't adjust on the fly and you would think a team with veterans like the Lakers have that wouldn't happen it wouldn't throw them for a loop. Yeah and it really did that's where that's where they need to rely on their sets a bit more and get into actions and not just try to try to wing it out there and that's that's what we saw but yeah I mean D'Angelo Russell had a phenomenal night this was I mean this is a big deal for D'Angelo Russell because he was so bad last year against the Denver Nuggets and then to have kind of that stinker performance in game one a lot of people said oh no here we go again and D'Angelo Russell is not a playoff performer and I mean he's got a lot of money on the line and free agency he needed to prove that he can step up in a playoff game and he did that I mean he was 7 of 11 from three 23 points he was great but in these situations yeah when the Denver Nuggets shift what they're doing defensively the Lakers should be able to react to that we saw Lebron make some big plays but the other guys you know really had a rough night he had a few opportunities right at the rim he didn't score D'Angelo Russell got pulled for defensive reasons for certain parts of this game too where he could have maybe given you a boost on the offensive end but ultimately the Lakers were not able to adjust to the adjustments on the fly it was one of the concerns I had going into this game is if they do come out hot and they do play well at halftime Denver's going to make changes and the Lakers over the course of the season they've struggled to adapt to what teams do mid-game and uh and that really burned them in this one tonight this certainly does seem like an indictment of coaching uh so we'll we'll see what happens post season or whenever the Lakers run is done they only get the three guys in double figures so AD Lebron and Russell who else is is gonna step up or what else do they need in order to add some depth so that it's not one of those games or one of those series I should say in which they keep running into a team that's got more options than they do well I mean they one of the the issues that they have is they didn't add another big last summer that certainly becomes a problem when you're playing up against uh the Denver Nuggets and Nikolay Jokic that that's a that's a fix now for the off season that you need to go find right now they need to get a bit more out of Austin Reeves he's you can see he's tiring chasing Jamal Murray around but nine points from him you've got to have more production there um the bench has been a problem for them you've got six points total off your bench and that was Torian Prince uh Spencer Dinwiddie and Gabe Benson really aren't providing any offense that they didn't even shoot last game they were 0 for three this game you're just not getting enough other guys that are that are chipping in right now this was a team that was really put together to have a bit more depth yes they've suffered some injuries they still have a couple of guys out right now though they may be coming back for game three we'll see and that's Jared Vanderbilt and Christian Wood but ultimately uh the Denver Nuggets are just a team that is very good at capitalizing on any mistakes that you made any shortcomings that you have they will find ways to exploit it and unfortunately tonight you didn't get Rui Hachimura or Austin Reeves going and that was enough to to really stymie your offensive production last game it was DeAngelo Russell it really feels like the Lakers have to do everything perfectly in order to beat this Denver team any little slip up here or there and that's enough for Denver to get the win. On twitter at Trevor underscore Lane he's got a lot to talk about on Lakers Nation and the front office show so find him on twitter and find those youtube links Trevor we appreciate a couple of minutes in the wake of this crazy finish hey no problem thank you for having me okay picture this it's Friday afternoon when a thought hits you I can waste another weekend doing the same old whatever or I can conquer it I can hop into my all-new Hyundai Santa Fe and hit the road any road the steeper the better because my all-new Santa Fe is available with h-track all-wheel drive so I can hit the trail without a worry in the world heck with three rows and best-in-class rear cargo space I can pack the whole family in with all our gear we've got available dual wireless charging for our phone so we'll never lose touch with civilization and we won't lose touch with the primordial power of mother earth so which is it waste the weekend or do something a little more epic and conquer it in the all-new Hyundai Santa Fe visit hundayusa.com or call 562-314-4603 for more details Hyundai there's joy in every journey this episode is brought to you by progressive insurance whether you love true crime or comedy celebrity interviews or news you call the shots on what's in your podcast queue and guess what now you can call them on your auto insurance too with the name your price tool from progressive it works just the way it sounds you tell progressive how much you want to pay for car insurance and they'll show you coverage options that fit your budget get your quote today at progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust progressive progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates price and coverage match limited by state law after the end of a good fight you deserve an ice cold reward medella the mark of a fighter you've earned this rich golden lager with a crisp refreshing taste because you know the bigger the fight the better the reward you put in the hours the energy the tough labor you are a fighter and medella is your reward medella the mark of a fighter trick responsibly beer imported by crown import chicago illinois